2025
August – Our collaboration with Hosung Bae and Cholsoon Jang is out on bioRxiv! Congratulations to Ana Espeleta, who led the analysis of microbiome changes in khk knockout mice on a high-sugar diet.
August – Ana Espeleta presented a poster on her rotation project at the EcoFABS meeting in Monterey.
June – Welcome Ana Espeleta, the first graduate student in the Xue lab!
April – It’s not a joke! the Xue lab launched on April 1 at UC Irvine. Zot zot zot!
February – Congratulations also to collaborators Maike Morrison and Noah Rosenberg, who developed a new statistic, FAVA, to quantify compositional variability in microbial communities! Check out the paper in PNAS.
February – Congratulations to Doran Goldman and co-authors, whose work investigating the effect of initial population size on colonization outcomes was published in PNAS! Check out the paper and the commentary by Alyssa Mitchell and Tami Lieberman.
2024
October – Katherine presented her work on tracking colonization dynamics in the gut microbiome at the CSHL Microbiome meeting.
Xue lab at UC Irvine 